Lieve Bos is a telecommunications engineer that worked in industry for 7 years on research and innovation projects, including also for public sector customers. After having experienced the barriers to innovation procurement from the private sector side, Lieve started working on public procurement policy from the public sector side. Since 2005 she works in the European Commission in DG CONNECT (DG Communication Networks, Content and Technologies) as policy officer for innovation and green procurement. In this function she has developing policy initiatives and incentive mechanisms via the EU funding programmes to encourage public procurers around Europe to procure more green and innovative solutions.